are going off. Down here, I’m face down in the chasm
between shame & denial, my erection

a bridge to a better, more sensual world.

Tory Adkisson recently received his MFA from The Ohio State University and currently attends the University of Georgia as a doctoral student in literature and creative writing. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Linebreak, Colorado Review, BOXCAR Poetry Review, Third Coast, Boston Review, Drunken Boat, Best New Poets 2012, and elsewhere.

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